Hairpin felt: master-class

In this article, we propose a master class on making felt hairpins with our own hands. Create a similar decoration in the form of different colors is easy enough, only there would be felt and a bit of free time. A step-by-step description of the technology will tell you how to make a hairpin correctly and quickly.

Tools and materials

Before you learn how to make a hairpin, you need to prepare the following materials:

• Pastel color shades (you can use any color);
• scissors;
• pencil;
• Glue gun;
• hairpins.

If desired, you can make hairpins or elastic bands of felt in bright shades.

It all depends on your preferences and taste.

Roses-hairpins made of felt: a master class

1. With a pencil or pen, draw the workpiece on the felt in the form of a wavy spiral two centimeters wide and approximately fifteen centimeters in diameter.
2. Follow the scissors to carefully cut the spiral along the previously traced lines.
3. Start twisting from the outer side of the spiral, where the waves are larger.

Then fold a wavy spiral in the form of a flower. During folding, it is necessary to firmly fix the hand-made article, otherwise it can unwind.

1. Increase the sweep of the petals during folding from the middle to the outer edges. If necessary, you can pull the petals. This will allow you to open the flower a little and expand it.
2. After completing the folding of the petals, it is necessary to apply a little hot glue on the underside of the felt and fix the hand-made article.
3. It remains to apply a droplet of hot glue on the back of the flower and paste it on the hairpin.

A variety of chic hair clips from felt in the form of roses are created in a similar way. Your painstaking work on the product is completed.

What do you need?

To make a summer hairpin made of felt, you will need to prepare a standard set of materials:

• Yellow and green felt one millimeter thick;
• A needle with a thread;
• Metal hair clip;
• scissors;
• Roller knife;
• glue gun.

Dandelion from felt

If you have prepared everything you need, then let's get to work:

1. The first thing you should do is cut a yellow strip from a strip eight centimeters wide and thirty centimeters long. Bend this strip in half and with a simple pencil or chalk, mark the future line of the line.
2. Using a needle with a thread, perform a straight line on the previously planned line. Then trim the extra thread.
3. Take the scissors and make incisions along the entire length of your workpiece to a depth of about 0.3 centimeters. The cuttings are made from the edge of the fold and are limited by one centimeter from the edge of the strip. Thus, you have designated a boundary for which you can not cross.
4. Slice your strip in no hurry, so everything is neat, beautiful and smooth.
5. After everything has been prepared, gently apply hot glue. Then, as hard as possible, twist your strip at the base.
6. Well, glue the beginning of the strip, and then twist it step by step, applying glue along the entire length of the edge.

1. Make sure that the base remains flat. Since the lower edge of the strip along its entire length should be at the same level from the turn to the turn, without any displacements.

Some recommendations

• Adhesive should be applied neatly near the lines that you marked with a pencil, for ease of cutting.
• The strip of felt should be well twisted and carefully fixed.
• We cut all the loops at the upper base to one. A work that requires scrupulousness and attentiveness, but is almost time-consuming and easy to perform.
• Try to cut so that both halves along the length are the same. It will not be difficult to do this, if at the moment of cutting, pull up each of the loops slightly.

Making leaves

Despite the fact that the dandelion produced looks quite realistic, he obviously does not have enough leaves. Therefore, draw a hand outline of the sheet on paper. Then translate the contours on a sheet of green felt and cut with scissors.

After the leaves are cut, place them on a felt sheet of a slightly lighter green color and sew in the middle. Eliminate excess threads and cut the bottom light-green layer of the leaf at a distance of one millimeter from the top layer.

Final assembly

After the flower and leaves are ready, you need to go back a bit and cut off part of the flower's leg. It was the part that we smeared with glue and twisted into a tight roll. Crop will be right under the line. Do it best with a sharp blade of a retractable knife. You need to remove all unnecessary so that no more than five millimeters remain from the incised petals.

Now you need to attach the leaves, after which your charming yellow dandelions will be finally collected. However, in addition to making flowers, the task is to create a hair clip from the received bouquet. Therefore, we will continue our work further.

• Glue the leaves to the base of the flower. It is necessary to attach two leaves to each flower. One is large, the second is smaller.
• Now measure the diameter of the dandelion's leg. It is this diameter you need to cut out a circle of felt yellow. This circle is used as a stub to hide all the rough work. Apply glue to the part of the circle and glue.
• The final stage of your work will be gluing the metal clip for the hair. Since the base of our felt flower is small enough, we will glue the clamp on one of the leaves.
• We place the clamp in such a way that it is not visible from the front upper side of the barrette. In the process of gluing it is desirable to use a hot pistol with silicone rods.

The final stage

Having mastered the technique of making a similar flower, you will understand that the hairpin made of felt is quite simple in manufacture and under the power of beginning masters and children of the senior classes.

We tried to make hairpins with you. As you have noticed, the work on the product is simple and interesting. However, this hobby will require you to be accurate, effort and enough time. However, all these efforts are worth it so that the original and delightful hairpins with a sparkle sparkled in your hair. Therefore, if today you have an evening free from domestic cares and trouble, why not please yourself or your relatives?

Make beautiful hairpins from felt in the form of flowers with your own hands and give joy to others and yourself!